Penza, 6 October 2018. PenzaNews. Over 300 people participate in the forum of student teams of the Volga Federal District, which started at the premises of the Penza regional library named after M.Y. Lermontov on Saturday, October 6.

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Dmitry Kadenkov, the chief federal inspector for the Penza region turned to the participants congratulating them and reading out a welcome address of the plenipotentiary representative of Russian President in the Volga Federal District Igor Komarov.

Oleg Yagov, the deputy chairman of the regional government, also addressed to the young people.

"The forum is held for the eighth time but I think a few traditions should be established in the Penza region. The first of them is the creation of the student teams' anthem by our boys and girls, which I hope will become the anthem of all student teams in the Volga Federal District," he said.

Oleg Yagov added that it had been decided that after the opening of the Penza Youth Museum one of its first exhibitions had to be devoted to the forum.

"Together with Vasily Isaev [the head of the district headquarters of the Russian Student Teams] we decided to create an art object devoted to the forum in the sculpture park Legenda," the deputy chairman of the regional government said.

Then Vasily Islayev handed diplomas to the best commanders of the teams.

According to the press service of the regional Ministry of Education, at the end of the official part the participants went on a tour of Penza.

It is also planned to hold the quest game Values of Russian Student Teams and the song festival Echoes of Summer in Virgin Lands.